Quickie CLI interface to Google Translate.

translate

#!/bin/bash

USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0"

translate () {
    slang="$1"
    tlang="$2"
    shift
    shift
    phrase="$@"

    post_data="sl=$slang&tl=$tlang&js=n&prev=_t&hl=$tlang&\
ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&text=${phrase// /+}&file="
    url="http://translate.google.com"

    wget -q -O - --user-agent="$USER_AGENT" \
        --post-data="$post_data" \
        $url | \
        grep --only-matching "<span title=\"$phrase\"[^>]*>[^<]*</span>"
    echo
}

translate $@